As regards the keeping of the accounts, it is necessary to specify the principles applicable to the accounting ledgers, the trialbalance, the periodical reconciliation of the totals in that balance and the inventory, and to specify the components of the chart of accounts adopted by the Commission’s accounting officer.

1. The balance of accounts in the trial balance shall be reconciled periodically and at least at the annual closure, with the data from the management systems used by authorising officers for the management of assets and liabilities and for the daily input into the accounting system.

Each institution and body referred to in Article 141 of the Financial Regulation shall establish a trialbalance covering all the accounts of the general accounts, including the accounts cleared during the year, with, in each case:

2. The trialbalance accompanied by a handing over report shall be transmitted by the accounting officer who is terminating his duties or, if it is not possible, by an official in his department to the new accounting officer.

That discipline will come through the social union framework agreement when we allow ourselves to look at outcomes, to be held accountable to the Canadian public and to make outcomes like school readiness or birth weight, for example, part of the whole package in the accountability regime.

With next week, of course, being a week at home, we want to make sure we're ready at the first opportunity, when the liaison committee meets, to prepare for them an account of what the details of our visit might be.

This morning, since Danny Foster is here, I would ask him to take you through a table of numbers in terms of the progress in making payments under the AIDA program and also to bring you up to date on where we are with the net income stabilization accountbalances.

Emphasises that the production of biofuels should not interfere with food production or compromise food security; believes, however, that balanced policies to promote increased European yields in feedstock crops such as wheat, maize, sugar beet and sunflowers could include provision for biofuel production, taking account of ILUC, in a way which could provide Europe’s farmers with a secure income stream, attract investment and jobs ...[+++]into rural areas, help address Europe’s chronic shortage of (GM-free) high-protein animal feed, make Europe less dependent on fossil fuel imports; believes that in cases of market oversupply of the agricultural products referred to, the production of biofuels and bioethanol would represent a temporary outlet which would maintain sustainable purchase prices, safeguard farmers’ incomes during crises, and serve as a market stability mechanism; stresses the need to encourage the integration of uncultivated arable land which is not being used to produce food into the production of bioenergy, with a view to meeting national and European renewable energy objectives.

12. Believes that consumer protection does not necessarily entail large volumes of information and that the focus should rather be on the quality and comprehensibility of information enabling proper decision-making – information must be relevant, accurate, comparable, user-friendly, reliable and timely; is concerned that the multiplicity and complexity of customer information might not ultimately serve real customer needs; argues for a balance to be struck to provide consumers with the information they need to make ...[+++] informed choices, and to understand the risks involved, while not unnecessarily burdening businesses, especially SMEs; encourages further digitalisation of information; stresses that financial advisers and employees providing consumer advice at financial institutions should be given the training and time necessary to be able to serve customers in an accurate way; notes the importance of effective supervisory powers to intervene in the marketing of products where necessary; points to the need for a European initiative for more and better financial education by no later than the end of 2016, taking account of the specific needs of each Member State, also to ensure full awareness of the advantages and disadvantages of capital market investments; underlines also that financial education should be targeted towards SMEs, teaching them how to use capital markets; believes in the benefit of better transparency in order to enable companies, investors and consumers to understand the comparative costs and benefits of different services provided by market participants, but also notes that more transparency has to come with added value for customers or competent supervisors and be targeted towards the practical use of the information and data;

As demonstrated by the references contained in the letters from the line ministers and the parliamentary reports referred to in recitals 97, 103 and 106, in making their 1997 scrutiny of the French state's remuneration after the restructuring of EDF's balance sheet, the French authorities took account both of the return on the capital contributions due to the state as shareholder in the strict ...[+++] sense, and of the expected amount of tax that the state, acting as a tax-raising public authority, would collect after 1997 following several years of tax loss carry-over.

So to make the account balance, despite the 500 pages we have here and the nearly 900 pages of the bill, there isn't a little line indicating that premiums less benefits equals the balance, and the cumulative balance. That wasn't done.

10. Stresses that women, despite the fact that they account for 60 % of university graduates in the EU, are still heavily under-represented in senior and leadership positions at all levels of political and economic decision-making; calls, therefore, for swift adoption of the Women on Boards Directive as an important first step for equal representation in the public and private sectors, and stresses the Commission’s responsibility to take any action that could help break the deadlock in Council regarding EU legislation addressing transparency and great ...[+++]er gender balance in recruitment for decision-making positions;

A. whereas, pursuant to Article 3(3) of the Treaty on European Union, the Union ‘shall work for the sustainable development of Europe based on balanced economic growth and price stability, a highly competitive socialmarket economy, aiming at full employment and social progress, and a high level of protection’; whereas it is vital to ensure the social ...[+++] dimension of economic governance at the various levels of the Union, as laid down in Article 9 TFEU; whereas in its resolution of 1 December 2011 on the European Semester for Economic Policy Coordination, Parliament stated that ‘any new or upgraded organisation and decision-making process within the Council and/or the Commission must go hand in hand with upgraded democratic legitimacy and appropriate accountability to the European Parliament’;

14. Welcomes Joseph Blatter’s resignation as FIFA’s president, and the criminal investigations currently being conducted; urges FIFA’s Executive Committee to implement structural reforms in order to bring transparency and accountability and to guarantee open, balanced and democratic decision-making processes within FIFA, including in the election process of the new president, and a zero-tolerance policy on corruption in sport;

13. Welcomes Joseph Blatter’s resignation as FIFA’s president, and the criminal investigations currently being conducted; urges FIFA’s Executive Committee to implement structural reforms in order to bring transparency and accountability and to guarantee open, balanced and democratic decision-making processes within FIFA, including in the election process of the new president, and a zero-tolerance policy on corruption in sport;

8. Urges FIFA’s Executive Committee to implement structural reforms in order to bring about transparency and accountability and to guarantee open, balanced and democratic decision-making processes within the association;

8. Urges the FIFA Executive Committee to implement structural reforms in order to bring about transparency, equity and accountability, as well as guaranteeing open, balanced and democratic decision-making processes within the association;

7. Urges FIFA’s Executive Committee to implement structural reforms in order to bring transparency and accountability and to guarantee open, balanced and democratic decision-making processes within the association;

8. Urges FIFA’s Executive Committee to implement structural reforms in order to bring about transparency and accountability and to guarantee open, balanced and democratic decision-making processes within FIFA;

On a point related to stereotypes, the rapporteur considers it essential to encourage measures making for work-life balance, for instance by recognising the participation of fathers and mothers in family life and turning it to account.

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